Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A haystack.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

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  • noun a haystack

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a stack of hay

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Examples

  • The fans' player of the season last time around, the tall Argentinian with the hayrick hairstyle is a cultured footballer with a coolness that belies his Wildman of Borneo appearance.

    Newcastle United Premier League 2011-12 team guide 2011

  • It was a true meeting of minds, for I doubt if a woman ever stripped faster from full court regalia, and we revelled in each other like peasants in a hayrick, from bed to floor and back again, I believe, but I ain't sure.

    Watershed 2010

  • This is like someone selling you a dunce-quality hayrick and you not knowing any better.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Posner on Consumer Financial Protection Paternalism: 2009

  • Yet logic threads manic needles lost in hayrick sanity; there is bread and fishes in your largesse, much wine in amphorae blessed with soporific gifts – we are pleased you came pissy-eyed to poetry gladly.

    Pissy-Eyed Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Yet logic threads manic needles lost in hayrick sanity; there is bread and fishes in your largesse, much wine in amphorae blessed with soporific gifts – we are pleased you came pissy-eyed to poetry gladly.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Blackwall Railway, which was then the high road to a great Military Depot, was worse than looking after a needle in a hayrick.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • Wandering into a copse by the road – side — but not in that place; two or three miles off — he tore out from a fence a thick, hard, knotted stake; and, sitting down beneath a hayrick, spent some time in shaping it, in peeling off the bark, and fashioning its jagged head with his knife.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • Following the tracks with his eyes, the view closed with the new hayrick in a corner.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Now, if he had gone on to the hayrick, and gone round it?

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • He assured me that no hayrick could now be found in London; upon which I was forced to leave him, and with mutual esteem we parted.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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